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Joyent ports KVM onto SmartOS-> 0

Submitted by JBdH on Wednesday August 17 2011, @05:05PM

JBdH writes "Joyent made a port of linux-kvm to run under SmartOS, a Illumos distro (which in turn is the fully open community fork of the OpenSolaris operating system).
from TFA : “This combination of virtualisation options, data consistency through ZFS and access to DTrace for rapid troubleshooting, is the most powerful and efficient collection of technologies in cloud application development,""
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The computer labs that created the digital world-> 0

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MrSeb

on Wednesday August 17 2011, @02:23PM

MrSeb writes "Throughout history there is a recurring theme of like-minded individuals coming together to create a shared “hive mind” intelligence that is greater than its constituent parts. . In the time of Socrates and Plato and Cicero, this would’ve been the local forum or sophist schools, and the Enlightenment of the 18th century was triggered by homely gatherings at salons and fueled by the steaming hotpot of coffeehouses and caffeine. Today we still use forums of course, and plenty of inventions and insight still originate from coffeehouses, but most innovation occurs in laboratories.

ExtremeTech takes a look at the six computer labs that gave birth to the digital world — from Bletchley Park in Blighty, to PARC labs in Palo Alto, and everything in between."
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LinuxCon 2011 Keynotes Streaming (and Free)-> 0

Submitted by DeviceGuru on Wednesday August 17 2011, @01:12PM

DeviceGuru writes "All keynote sessions from the LinuxCon North America 2011 conference held in Vancouver this week are being made available for free public streaming today through Friday (August 17-19). One noteworthy highlight: today's 4:45 pm (pdt) keynote will feature Greg Kroah-Hartman in conversation with Linus Torvalds. Viewing the streams requires free registration."
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Intel Co-Founder Calls For Tax On Offshored Labor 565

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 02 2010, @02:06PM
from the wishful-thinking dept.

theodp writes "Intel co-founder and ex-CEO Andy Grove calls BS on the truism that moving production offshore to locations with much lower wages is a sound idea. 'Not only did we lose an untold number of jobs,' says Grove, 'we broke the chain of experience that is so important in technological evolution. As happened with batteries, abandoning today's "commodity" manufacturing can lock you out of tomorrow's emerging industry.' To rebuild its industrial commons, Grove says the US should develop a system of financial incentives, including an extra tax on the product of offshored labor. 'If the result is a trade war,' Grove advises, 'treat it like other wars — fight to win.'"

Andy Grove on returning tech jobs back to the US-> 0

Submitted by JBdH on Friday July 02 2010, @12:26PM

JBdH writes "Andy Grove makes a plea for returning manufacturing tech jobs to the US before it's too late."
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10 Funniest 4thofJuly Bottle Rocket Fail Videos-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 02 2010, @12:24PM

An anonymous reader writes "A perfect 10 videos to start the 4th of July weekend off. Awesome top ten of guys failing miserabley at shooting bottle rockets from butt cracks."
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iPhone 4's LCD Compared Against Other Smartphones 0

Submitted by adeelarshad82 on Friday July 02 2010, @12:23PM

adeelarshad82 writes "If there was one thing Apple has tried to focus on with iPhone 4, it's the display. And this probably begs the question that exactly how good is the display compared to other top smartphones. To test this out, PCMag teamed up with Dr. Raymond Soneira to compare iPhone 4's LCD against Motorola Droid X, HTC Droid Incredible and HTC EVO in terms of brightness, contrast, color depth, and color accuracy. One important thing noted before the test was that the four smartphones use three different types of screen technologies. The Droid X and HTC EVO use traditional TFT LCDs. The iPhone's screen is an IPS LCD, a variant on TFT LCD, where as Droid Incredible is AMOLED. Even though the overall winner here might be predictable, there were a couple interesting results. For instance when it came down to contrast, iPhone 4 and Motorola Droid X were neck in neck, 1097 and 1071 respectively, where as HTC Droid Incredible measured a staggering 39,373. Moreover Motorola Droid X has the most accurate colors out of the bunch; it offers 94 percent of the sRGB color gamut. On the other hand the iPhone 4 falls extremely short in color accuracy, with colors undersaturated by 36 percent, similar to iPhone 3GS. iPhone 4 did kill the competition when it came down to full blown 24-bit color experience and brightness measuring up to 536 cd/m."

US manufacturers can't find skilled workers-> 1

Submitted by andy1307 on Friday July 02 2010, @09:14AM

andy1307 writes "The New York Times has an article in the business section about the inability of US manufacturers to find workers with the right skills. During the recession, domestic manufacturers appear to have accelerated the long-term move toward greater automation, laying off more of their lowest-skilled workers and replacing them with cheaper labor abroad. Now they are looking to hire people who can operate sophisticated computerized machinery, follow complex blueprints and demonstrate higher math proficiency than was previously required of the typical assembly line worker.

Makers of innovative products like advanced medical devices and wind turbines are among those growing quickly and looking to hire, and they too need higher skills.

Supervisors at Ben Venue Laboratories, a contract drug maker for pharmaceutical companies, have reviewed 3,600 job applications this year and found only 47 people to hire at $13 to $15 an hour, or about $31,000 a year. All candidates at Ben Venue must pass a basic skills test showing they can read and understand math at a ninth-grade level. A significant portion of recent applicants failed. In a survey last year of 779 industrial companies by the National Association of Manufacturers, the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte, the accounting and consulting firm, 32 percent of companies reported “moderate to serious” skills shortages. Sixty-three percent of life science companies, and 45 percent of energy firms cited such shortages."
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Pirate Party to Run Pirate Bay from Parliament-> 2

Submitted by rdnetto on Friday July 02 2010, @09:02AM

rdnetto writes "After their former hosting provider received an injunction telling it to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, the worlds most resilient BitTorrent site switched to a new ISP. That host, the Swedish Pirate Party, made a stand on principle. Now they aim to take things further by running the site from inside the Swedish Parliament.

The party has announced today that they intend to use part of the Swedish Constitution to further these goals, specifically Parliamentary Immunity from prosecution or lawsuit for things done as part of their political mandate. They intend to push the non-commercial sharing part of their manifesto, by running The Pirate Bay from ‘inside’ the Parliament, by Members of Parliament."
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Grigory Perelman turns down $1m Millenium Prize-> 1

Submitted by Kleiba on Friday July 02 2010, @08:21AM

Kleiba writes "After turning down the prestigious Field Medal in 2006 for his contributions to mathematics, the reclusive Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman announced yesterday that he is rejecting a $1 million Millennium Prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute for solving the Poincare conjecture."
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